Nonfiction
“Compact rectangular backyards overflowed with potted plants, flower bushes and fruit trees, teeming with a viridescent youthfulness given the amount of first generation immigrant families choosing to take root there.”
Anson Wang
Evergreen Days
“When I look back it’s as if I’m watching a damaged film reel, the camera tilted upwards forever at the height of everyone’s hips. The tape jumps and skips years, as if trying to chronologically order itself but to no avail.”
Carlos Yu
The Creation of Adam
“I have sharpened myself to be the most thinnest and flexible spear. I throw myself into the train that is already speeding towards our most darkest and brightest potentials.”
Ori C. Li
To Be Still
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